"An Austrian girl held in captivity for eight years told on Wednesday how all she could think of was how to escape but she feared that fleeing might provoke her abductor into killing her in a murder spree. For the first time since her dash to freedom two weeks ago, 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch spoke about the years of loneliness, hunger and agony that she spent in a cell beneath the garage of Wolfgang Priklopil's house near Vienna.

"I promised myself I would grow older, stronger and sturdier to be able to break free one day," Kampusch said in her first television interview, looking fragile but composed and confident despite her ordeal and the subsequent media frenzy. By Karin Strohecker, Reuters, Link to Article (last visited 9-6-06 NVS)